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This book offers a comprehensive overview of resilience across immigrant and refugee populations. It examines immigrant and refugee strengths and challenges and explores what these experiences can impart about the psychology of human resilience. Chapters review culture functions and how they can be used as a resource to promote resilience. In addition, chapters provide evidence-based approaches to foster and build resilience. Finally, the book provides policy recommendations on how to promote the well-being of immigrant and refugee families. Topics featured in this book include: Methods of cultural adaptation and acculturation by immigrant youth. Educational outcomes of immigrant youth in a ...
School bullying is recognized as an international problem, but publications have focussed on the Western tradition of research. This is the first volume to bring together perspectives on school bullying from a range of Eastern as well as Western countries, covering basic findings, direct comparisons, explanations and implications for intervention.
Stimulus, Intention and Process in Creative Writing explores three exciting and key areas of creative writing practice and understanding. What stimulates a writer to write – or to write a particular piece? What do they intend to achieve when they do it? And is there a process we can study and perhaps even understand? The authors in this book, who are both practitioners and researchers, explore these three areas in unique and thought-provoking ways. They bring to the discussion both expertise in relation to what we already know, and a sense of forward-thinking in discussing how we can find out more. This is a book for creative writing researchers and students who are seeking new knowledge a...
Atami Ghost, the final race of the season, is now underway. Kanata's all but decided that it'll be his final race for MFG, but will his fifth attempt at victory pay off? He'll have his work cut out for him, as nearly every top MFG driver is bringing their “A” game to their qualifying runs! It's Volume 19 of the follow-up to Initial D, with Season 2 of the anime set to launch in 2024!
The Guest Editors would like to express their profound gratitude to Dr Isabella Giulia Franzoi for her valuable work in initiating this Research Topic and actively contributing to it.
In the year 202X, self-driving electric cars dominate Japan's roads-but in MFG, a street-track motorsport league that's captured the world's attention, gas-powered speedsters from Porsche, Ferrari, Lamborghini and more still dominate. Enter Kanata Katagiri, freshly graduated from a British racing school and back in Japan to look for his father. His first MFG qualifying run-done in a Toyota 86-sets the stage for what will become new street-racing legend!
This unique book officially defines microbiome statistics as a specific new field of statistics and addresses the statistical analysis of correlation, association, interaction, and composition in microbiome research. It also defines the study of the microbiome as a hypothesis-driven experimental science and describes two microbiome research themes and six unique characteristics of microbiome data, as well as investigating challenges for statistical analysis of microbiome data using the standard statistical methods. This book is useful for researchers of biostatistics, ecology, and data analysts. Presents a thorough overview of statistical methods in microbiome statistics of parametric and no...
Kanata finished in the single digits in the season's first MFG race--and in the qualifiers for the second race at Lake Ashinoko, his talents are proving no less spectacular. When the final kicks off, it's in downpour conditions...but Kanata says the rain is on his side, and soon enough he's proving it on the roads!
Statistics in Psychology covers all statistical methods needed in education and research in psychology. This book looks at research questions when planning data sampling, that is to design the intended study and to calculate the sample sizes in advance. In other words, no analysis applies if the minimum size is not determined in order to fulfil certain precision requirements. The book looks at the process of empirical research into the following seven stages: Formulation of the problem Stipulation of the precision requirements Selecting the statistical model for the planning and analysis The (optimal) design of the experiment or survey Performing the experiment or the survey Statistical analysis of the observed results Interpretation of the results.